THE VANISHED ART OF THE SAMPLER: WHICH CHILDISH FINGERS WORKED LONG YEARS AGO
... THE VANISHED ART OF THE SAMPLER. WHICH CHILDISH FINGERS WORKED LONG YEARS AGO. Behold these 'broideries. Finer you never saw. To the majority of people the word sampler merely conveys a vague idea of a square of more or less coarse canvas exhibiting a cross-stitch alphabet, a row of numerals, perhaps a house, or some weird, heraldic beasts below, and a moral aphorism as a tag. But as a matter ...